Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [be] [verb] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 2 | He , he 's trying to make , he , he 's making him , you aggressive is n't he and I would say that he 's just thinking it 's low if I 'm going and this guy because , you know |
| 3 | That is now the end because of the difference of one A but if you 're proposing that this comes at the end of one A , you 're proposing to tack it on to the end of roman numeral three in the labour amendment as was the council 's which I take it , was not what you intend its effect to be . |
| 4 | Um I think that um y'know it 's often quite intimidating to be confronted with y'know sort of say eighty odd questions , if you were to use that many , erm so if you if you kind of break it up a bit in some way and have different headed sections with slightly different format questions it might y'know kind of help people through it as it were . |
| 5 | Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades . |
| 6 | The Countryside Commission says they would be used if they were cleared and that the answer 's cooperation . |
| 7 | A potential offeror or its advisers may accordingly acquire shares in the target and use this right to ascertain the compensation which would be payable to directors of the target if they were dismissed and any golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.1 below ) which may exist . |
| 8 | If it be said that such an accident is an involuntary mischief , would it have been a binding promise if the testator had said , ‘ I will give you £100 a year while you continue in your present chambers ’ ? |
| 9 | An alternative approach is to measure share price changes ; prices at any given time reflect the market 's estimate of future performance and if it is assumed that this estimate is reliable then a comparison of ‘ before and after ’ figures should provide an accurate guide to the change in earning potential brought about by merger . |
| 10 | If it is assumed that this country had achieved the minimum level of industrial development by 1850 , then the available circumstantial evidence suggests that by then about 70 per cent of the working class had achieved basic literacy rates . |
| 11 | This can be seen to be in accordance with the Yerkes-Dodson law if it is assumed that more difficult tasks are those which require greater attentional capacity ( c.f. Kahneman , 1973 ) . |
| 12 | There might be more advantage in making the categories run mid-way across the ten-year groups , giving 25–34 as a group if it is felt that some significant changes take place in people 's lives in their mid-thirties , or at other points in the mid-sections of the decades . |
| 13 | If it is felt that this smacks too much of the ‘ green shield stamp ’ approach , it should be realized that it is intended that the scheme will operate with a substantial element of vocational and tutorial guidance using specialized staff . |
| 14 | If it is decided that more relevant information for the balance sheet would be the plant 's replacement cost , then that entry becomes more subjective : different accountants might produce different replacement costs from different markets . |
| 15 | A coherent school policy on Standard English is possible if it is recognised that all these views are legitimate . |
| 16 | If it is accepted that these moves are taking place , and there seems little doubt that they are , the question remains as to what significance they have , and what they imply . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , even if it is insisted that some degree of regularity is normally required , there are situations where the first transaction entered into by a supplier can be treated as being made in the course of business , for example , one-off adventures integral to a business activity . |
| 18 | All these things can be achieved if it is acknowledged that all procedures should a validated by users under the normal conditions of use . |
| 19 | Looking for sherds that will join together is a very time-consuming process , and is only usually done thoroughly if it is suspected that such joins exist and will add significantly to the evidence . |
| 20 | If it is said that that word is capable of a neutral meaning , my answer is that , in order to read section 3(1) harmoniously with section 1(1) in its natural sense , ‘ assumption ’ must receive a unilateral meaning . |
| 21 | And the notion of generalization decrement can also explain the effects of prior exposure to B alone if it is allowed that such training will make the B stimulus less effective and thus relatively unlikely to interfere with the perception of A when the two are presented in compound . |
| 22 | If it is allowed that such contrivance is pedagogically desirable as activating the process of learning , then it sets its own conditions for normality . |
| 23 | And , if it is thought that such a state of affairs is , for whatever reason , undesirable , then it behoves those who argue for another approach to learn the lesson of political realities . |
| 24 | If it is thought that this is one of the pleasanter , more protective aspects of male chauvinism , this is mistaken . |
| 25 | There is no need for special rules for classic cars , but if it is considered that such rules are required , the most appropriate method is to determine the benefit by reference to the cost to the employer rather than original price . |
| 26 | For instance , if it is supposed that some of our perceptual judgements have a form of intrinsic credibility , and if a set of canons of rationality can be justified without recourse to the special sciences — they are analytic , self-evident , or a conventionally adopted linguistic framework — then it may be possible to trace the credibility of all rational beliefs to that possessed by this foundation . |
| 27 | If it was felt that these conditions would be insufficient to prevent ‘ serious public disorder ’ , then the chief officer could apply for a banning order — from the Home Secretary in London , or from the local council in any other part of the country . |
| 28 | But this women 's suffrage element is only a part of the second item 's subject field and not explicit in the title ; it would require competent and perceptive indexing to bring it out , if it was desired that this should be attempted in the index . |
| 29 | Finally , and most significantly , the public would be seriously worried , whatever the prevailing view in the laboratory , if it were to chink that little of moral significance separated the killing of animals from that of certain groups of human beings such as babies or imbeciles . |
| 30 | But there would be no power of entry without a warrant if it were suspected that such an offence was taking place , even though there is such a power for the less serious offence under section 4 . |